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It is true that there are not absolutely zero instances of telemetry or "phoning home" in Linux, but Desktop Linux is not a similar experience to Windows or macOS in this regard, and it isn't approaching that point, either. You can tcpdump a clean install of Debian or what-have-you and figure out all of what's going on with network traffic. Making it whisper quiet typically isn't a huge endeavor either, usually just need to disable some noisy local networking features. Try Wiresharking a fresh Windows install, after you've unchecked all of the privacy options and ran some settings through Shutup10 or whatever. There's still so much crap going everywhere. It's hard to even stop Windows from sending the text you type into the start menu back to Microsoft, there's no option, you need to mess with Group Policy and hope they don't change the feature enough to need to change a different policy later to disable it again. macOS is probably still better (haven't checked in a while), but there are still some features that basically can't be disabled that leak information about what you're doing to Apple. For example, you can't stop macOS from phoning home to check OCSP status when launching software: there's no option to disable that.

The reason why this is the case is because while the tech industry is rotten, the Linux desktop isn't really directly owned by a tech industry company. There are a few tech companies that work on Linux desktop things, but most of them only work on it as a compliment to other things they do.

Distributions may even take it upon themselves to "fix" applications that have unwanted features. Debian is infamous for disabling the KeepassXC networking features, like fetching favicons and the browser integration, features a lot of users actually did want.
It is a bit reductionist, but so is "don't harm infrastructure". Infrastructure can be harmful, just like anything else.

And in the end most criticisms about consequentialism are either about how to retroactively declare something moral or immoral (which is irrelevant for deciding the best path now without future knowledge) or are qualms with one particular way of weighing harm vs benefit. I'm perfectly fine with considering third order effects in the calculation, and an action that saves a life but errodes society is not necessarily "good" since the ultimate harm may outweigh the benefit. In fact it's this very kind of reasoning about higher-order-effects that would lead you to the conclusion that sabotage could be justified in some cases
For point one, it being so heavy, why not build each on the trailer so it doesn’t have to be moved on to it? Then when it’s ready it can simply be driven to its destination.

It may be impractical I realize but since the trailer has to fit it anyway, perhaps not
>Quite a few cities have actually solved this problem. They provide housing and all of the additional services, like hygiene facilities, food, and security. Granted, they only solve it for certain cohorts, but it demonstrates that it is rather trivially solvable. That's going to lead to hot political quarreling, so it's a good place to stop.

Most of those services are available AFAIK, there's charities in most major Canadian cities that provide those basics. Without them the homeless population would probably be triple what you can see, and from what I've heard the majority just need it short term to get back on their feet.

But they can only offer those to people without substance abuse problems (drugs and alcohol are banned in those shelters), and those are the folks you'll mostly see out and about. You'd need some sort of institution with far greater resources to handle those, like an asylum. North America just seems to have a sordid history with the like.
Vlovich is describing the very last race only, where he did place the final bet. He takes her 4k and tells her he’s going to place the bet for her so how much she’ll win is a surprise. The horse he said he would bet on loses the race and then he reveals he actually bet on the winner. So for that race and that race only I do think he just bet on every horse and sleight-of-handed the right ticket to her. Timestamp 35:20 in the video you linked earlier. Right after that he explains how the “trick” worked for all the earlier races, which is what you’re referring to.
I meant that man in the middle attacks make this effectively unauthenticated.
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In Seattle, in the summer we have anti-CPC protests almost every Saturday run by Chinese Americans I assume, I think it is driven by Falan Dafa though.

The biggest critics of the CPC seem to be ethnic Chinese though (well, or other ethnicities present in China or Asia as a whole), not generally European descended Americans.
> nut allergy suffers are not "morally entitled" to a nut-free option

Restaurant have a legal obligation to warn the customers. AKA "opt-in" which is NOT what Apple is doing. And it's the whole issue with their behavior.
Wow, that got ugly.

I'm inferring your assumptions based on what would logically cause a person to continue the conversation in the manner you are.
And this has been a hilarious exhibition for all parties involved.
I proposed a simple way to prove remote viewing without needing to have a complete theory for why or how it works. You assumed I was playing gotcha with an impossible test. Instead, I proposed an impossible-to-debunk way to prove you're right. You continued to ask if I "tried it" yet while insisting you don't care what I believe. And now you say
> Again, you're lost in this imagining trying to make your 'not trying' about other people or excuses. It's not. Just about you.
And, like, this is obviously projection. I don't need supernatural powers to realize this.
You've been cascading your own misunderstandings to the point of ridiculousness.
Yet all I was doing was say, "Hey, if you do this, you'll have an irrefutable outcome that will give any skeptic pause".
If you had any intuition for analytic thinking, it would be clear that proposing such a test makes me on your side, not against you.
But no, you instead continue to respond in a way that is best explained by assuming that I wanted to fill James Randi's shoes.
I'm a goddamn furry. It's in my username. I never made any attempt to obfuscate this. I spend a lot of free time with people who aren't just "playing pretend" online, but who are significantly psychologically comforted by calling them their fursona species. And I have no trouble squaring objective biological materialism with "here's an easy button to make a friend feel better". When it comes to remote viewing, I'm agnostic. I have no strong opinions either way. That you keep insisting I'm here to discredit you or your beliefs is your own insecurity screaming through the actions and context of your words.
I don't need a fucking crystal ball to see it. Maybe you do.

You don't need to prove it: there's zero doubt. The test is obviously cooked, you didn't listen, and haven't tried.

You assume I'm encouraging you to try because I care what you believe. Nope. Wrong again! Because I enjoy the idea of people becoming stronger, and seeing more reality does that. A world filled with stronger people is better.

Dude, there's a lot of delusion in your answer, I appreciate you for revealing it. Maybe you can read it back and learn.

Hahaha! You try to convince people you are on their side by exploding into abuse? After mislabeling and projecting your stuff onto people? Hahahahaha!

However you saw your role here in the arc of the psi/Remote Viewing story, it was never that. This was just 1 moment in your life where you had a chance to try something new. And you failed. Because of fear. Just like I laid out in my OG linked answer why it would be hard. You showed the example.

I hope you have a nice day and give it a shot another time.
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Apple does not guarantee waterproofness after 1 or 2 years, so it’s a bs argument again
Right, and unless there is some significant barrier to entry, whether a natural moat created by past performance by the company, or an unnatural moat created by some kind of corruption, price gouging alone makes it easier for competitors to enter the market since there is some slop available in the market rate for whatever good it is.
What percentage of what you do as a software engineer has direct linkage to computer science?

My guess for most of us is "not very much at all", several of the best people I've worked with as programmers did not have a CS degree, and I've interviewed people with CS degrees who could not write a function to sum an array of integers in any language of their choosing, meaning "honoring their degree" would have been an unwise choice.
I don't think its antisemitic to divest from a country involved in a questionable war ... but thats not really a conversation for this thread. Fwiw, I disagree with it in general, because small town politics should be focused on small town issues, not active management of pension fund allocations based on political issues.
The example used doesn't seem like a good indication of reflexively reaching for a phone, as doing things while waiting at a bus stop is pretty reasonable and has been around long before smartphones.

You're right though, that's likely what was meant, which I agree with. The hyperbole was unnecessary.
The best way not to solve a problem is to solve it the wrong way. I don’t wish to criticise the guy, and his actions come from the right place, but this is a distraction, and if we invest on it, we’ll fail to invest in actually solving the problem for good, which is hard, unpalatable, and implies structural changes that’ll upset a lot of people who need to be upset or the problem will never be solved, ever.
I regularly watch these "DW News Desk: Join the news conversation" "podcasts" (video series) - they are long form and a deep dive into a topic, often they have guests who are very passionate about some side of an issue, and it's extreme evident the hosts are well researched in the aspects of the issue that are divisive such that they can call out or steer the conversation in a manner I can more easily see the passion (/biased) of a guest. It's part of what I appreciate about world class journalism. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT6yxVwBEbi2VrKhg84AD...
What would you expect from fine tuning? What would the input training material be, and what would the expected differences in output be?
> Another person told me that these Chinese nationalists were only a vocal minority, similar to the wokes in America circa 2020.

I have no idea what this is supposed to elicit from me as a reader. "[A] vocal minority, similar to the wokes" ...that won the election?

It feels like you could say this for every American election year and it would sound equally as stupid. In 2012 it was the economic reformists and pro-regulation pundits, in 2016 it was virulent anti-woke crowd and staunch defenders of nationalism. So on and so forth. Were any of these really minority opinions, or was it that they were hot-topic issues at the time that divided voting citizens along party lines?
I agree there’s need for a consortium or organization. If only to wage a marketing campaign that hurts these harmful companies.
So you worked there 10 years, made your stack of cash, and then had a moral reckoning? So brave.
You cant have an ethical crisis if you dont have any morality. Do what thou wilt is our only modern ethos.
Depends what you want; in general:

Fish offers one behaviour out of the box with very little configurability, and that it's. If you like that behaviour then Fish is great. If you don't, then well, it's not so much.

zsh on the other hand is very flexible and can be shaped in to more or less anything you like. Some people really like that sort of flexibility and configurability, others don't.
I wonder why nerds are obsessed with Game of Life. I know I am one of them, but I still don't quite get why it hits the spot so well
Homelessness is a structural problem. Our society doesn’t automatically give everyone the right to live, and that has to change. A lot.
> they let their guests say whatever anti-intellectual bs they wanted, without trying to correct the guests

This is correct. Friedman praises himself to listen to "all sides". I think this is good in principle, but he invites all types of professional bullshitters and propagandists and let them go without the slightest pushback which is pretty disturbing.

He probably wouldn't have the same range of guests if he wasn't only throwing soft balls though.

To his credit, I found that Rogan was at least pushing back a bit against (what he perceived as) BS (haven't listened to him for a while though).

In any case, I hope for Americans these guys don't define the US intellectual landscape.
And he does just enough to say "I tried". In the first admin there was nothing stopping them from ending h1b, but somehow it never got done. He let Jeff Sessions basically take the blame on that.

I have zero doubts that there is going to be some fineprint unlimited cap for Musk and the VC's.
Hm, maybe for a fresh account today. I just checked and my discover feed is pretty much just art and photography.
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> There will always be someone who will take the money or the deal.

And even if there wasn't, that'd give them even MORE ammo to go screaming for easier access to H-1B and similar such imported labor.
> Opt-in makes the data useless - not just in terms of the huge drop in quantity but because of the fact it introduces a huge bias in the data selected - the people that would opt-in are probably not a good sample of "typical users".

Why? I don't think that's obvious. It may also be related to the way the opt-in is presented. In general, I would expect this to be a workable solution. Even if the opt-in group deviates from the "typical user", it's the best data you can get in an honest and ethically sound way. This should certainly be better than no data at all?

For any website/app that presents an opt-in cookie consent banner this is implicitly already the case.
> This layout seems designed partly for social control - during zero-COVID, authorities could lock down 10,000 people by simply guarding a few entrance gates. The wide roads would also make it easy to move military forces through the city.

This seems like a bit of a leap? Apart from zero covid, which I say is an exceptional scenario, I haven't heard of Chinese people socially controlled en masse into their home through use of force. The idea of military driving through the middle of city is even more ridiculous.
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This is very wrong. Smaller models would generate response instantly on 4090. I run 3090's and easily get 30-50 tokens/seconds with small models. Folks with 4090 will see easily 80 tokens/sec for 7-8b model in Q8 and probably 120-160 for 3B models. Faster than most public APIs
Who do you buy from when they’re all bad. I don’t think buying a Linux laptop is a serious option even for most enthusiasts. The software, hardware, and battery life just aren’t there.
I never realized search like this was this easy to build in a way.

It’s a very clever RegEx engine, essentially. Though it’s unclear to me right now how will this library handles fuzzy search (e.g. Califnia instead of California) but it’s really cool to reason about its implementation
When I read this I felt intellectual was the wrong word choice but I think I understood what he meant. Less about being an intellectual but more that China generally does not have very deep discussions in public about state matters or anything remotely related.
Non that much related, but inspired by: in the past southern States was the richest also thanks to the climate, and places where circadian delta was little was the most preferred. Than when heating became more automated (meaning you do not have to manually chop wood/dig for coal for most of the year) northern countries get richer, since there was still no A/C. I think we start to reverse again where some sufficiently mild climate zones, where p.v. is meaningful and with BIG circadian delta, to not need cooling in summer nights, will be again the richest a small step at a time as fossils get phased out.

At our current technological progress we still need nature to produce food and climate have an immense impact, so well... Try to really think about the not-so-near future, where in most northern/southern areas even if the climate will be less cold heating will be simply too expensive for most.

Introduce in the mix issues with melting permafrost and Canadian geological peculiarities... Canada seems to be probably a work zone for poor more than a wealthy country...
Counterpoint -- epoll is fundamentally broken: https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-...

You can end up with events on file descriptors that you don't even have open -- they leak across process boundaries. And that means that if the file descriptor gets reused, you can end up with events on the wrong file descriptor.
> the article says tejocotes are sold in NYC… makes me wonder what other fruits are here that I also had no idea?

I just popped in to ask the same question! I’ve been trying to find fresh lingonberries every Thanksgiving for years. You’d think that one could find anything in a city of this size, but >99% of it is just bodega bodega bodega
Apples and Oranges. Hetzner doesn't even have multiple AZ's by AWS's definition - all Hetzners DCs eg Falkenstein 1-14 would be the same AZ zone.

AWS network is designed with a lot more internal capacity and reliability than Hetzner which costs a lot more - multiple uplinks to independent switches, etc.

AWS is also buying current gen network gear which is much more pricey - Hetzner is mostly doing 1 Gig ports or 10 gig at a push which means they can get away with >10 year old switches (if you think they buy new switches I have a bridge you might be interested in buying).

This costs at least an order of magnitude more.
To be sold :)
I know that some wastewater treatment plants will sell biosolid sludge (the filtered and partially treated solid output of the treatment process). Do you know what, if anything, that does to the plastics?

I think it's mostly mechanical settling and then sitting in piles on the ground. Not sure if that UV exposure from the sun is enough to meaningfully degrade the plastic into something else.
About a year or so back, there was an issue about Airtags being used for stalking a person. Has that issue been resolved by Apple? Or does the issue still exist?
My opinion of China would be much more positive if they weren’t chomping at the bit to invade and annex Taiwan.
How many lives would this save? Is this the most efficient way to do it? Is it enough? Schools are closed this time of the year and that public infrastructure, including community centres can and should be used to temporarily house and offer help (mental health is a huge issue that goes hand in hand with homelessness) they need.
If you want to beat other romantically inclined geeks running scripts, you could make sure your script is running somewhere with low latency to that static IP. Use traceroute, looking glass, tools to ping from multiple regions to find the perfect place to run your script.

A VPS in the same region with good peering would be a start. Could see what else is running on IP addresses in the same range, maybe find someone who runs infra on a nearby IP who is willing to run your script.
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If tech elites are making this call on behalf of generations-old communities, what jobs they’re allowed to have locally——sounds a little like a communist, planned economy, where some districts are assigned to have certain gainful opportunities and others are assigned to not have them——based on their own value judgements and informal conversations, it’s the height of arrogance for them to reason that only they can keep the social structure from fracturing in a tight-knit community of which they were never a part.

Why not put it to a vote at the community level, out of respect for community autonomy, economic freedom, and democratic values? I can tell you that the people who are close enough to their children for them to want to stay around would never say no to a job opportunity that lets them do just that without sacrificing their career to do so. To boot, these communities generally have been home to at least some remote workers for decades already, but much of tech has fallen ill to narcissism in believing that it is somehow too special / important to also provide such an opportunity.

The majority of people who choose to live in their hometown, over a flashier place that they could also afford, are doing it out of love for their community, not out of some anti-social tendency to take advantage of it as you suggest. Perhaps some decision makers, somewhere, got where they are through a self-selection bias, and are projecting their own psychological quirks onto others.

There are a great many people whose families have roughly stayed put for generations. Your reasoning / dismissiveness / lack of care for these people shows a lack of insight or a tendency to marginalize the concerns of people from rural America.
This is an unhinged take. Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman are clearly intellectuals. Rogan is debatable - he’s more entertainer but he is also certainly more intellectual than those who are normally given that label, because he listens to a diverse set of views, and has more balanced and mature opinions on many topics as a result. The bigger issue isn’t Rogan being labeled that way - it’s all the “traditional” intellectuals who don’t deserve that label or the authority that goes with it.
They don't work in zsh; they're bash issues.
Train an ML model in the early PC era from horse race data stored on paper, train a CV model in the early GPU era on parking lot data from satellites, figure out MC options pricing in the early minicomputer era (before BS) …

Being first looks simple in hindsight
This is what Alex Jones / Info Wars is trying to do; it's sort-of working in that things have taken longer than they otherwise would, but it's slowly coming to an end anyway.
The first thing I'd do would be to try to theme it with textures from Planescape: Torment...

Joking aside, I've been hearing that radial menus are bad UX for decades, but I never understood why. For me, it was always much easier to build muscle memory with menus like that vs. traditional ones.
The entire unix operating system is designed to abstract away async problems and turn them sync so you can write sane code (if, else, for).

In my experience simple blocking code is incredibly misunderstood. Most programmers stop their thinking at “blocking is slow and non blocking is fast!”
Honestly, why the hell would Apple bother with such a contrived and machiavellian strategy to spy on their users?

They literally own the code to iOS. If they wanted to covertly track their customers, they could just have their devices phone home with whatever data they wanted to collect. Realistically there would be no way to know if this was actually happening, because modern devices emit so much encrypted data anyway, it wouldn’t be hard to hide some nefarious in all the noise.

Time Cook isn’t some Bond villain, sitting in a giant chair, stroking a white cat, plotting to take over the world by lulling everyone into a false sense of privacy (I mean Zuckerburg already did that). Apple is just a large giant corporation that wants to make money, and is pretty damn open about that fact. They clearly think that they can make more money by doubling down on more privacy, but that doesn’t work if you don’t actually provide the privacy, because ultimately, people are really crap at keeping secrets, especially when a media group would happily pay for a story, even at Apple.
AFAIK the Oslo one wasn't landing gear failure, so that makes 1 737-800 (the most common commercial aircraft in the air most of the time) and 1 Dash-8